Monitoring natural phenomena from the classroom with Edusat. Proposal for a teaching guide (and support material)

Abstract

Satellite images and remote sensing allow us to identify the effects of natural and human-made changes that occur on Earth: fires, floods, urban development, deforestation, etc. Thanks to the Copernicus programme, satellite images of the entire world are now available, with a neardaily frequency that allow the identification and monitoring of all these natural phenomena and human activities that produce notable changes to the Earth’s surface. All these phenomena are forming part of the concerns of many young people who see the future of their planet in danger. The Edusat platform explores these phenomena from space and provides a didactic guide to understanding the effects of global environmental change, right in the classroom. In this way, we bring remote sensing closer to a public that until now was rarely involved in this discipline. We do it from a didactic and practical point of view, connected with real data from Sentinel satellites and thanks to EO Browser application